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May 20, 2010, Thursday

CLAUDIA SHEAR's much-ballyhooed play about Mae West, ''Dirty Blonde,'' opened off-Broadway in January 2000, and four months later, moved right onto Broadway. By last season it had become one of the most frequently performed plays in professional...

''Take my husband . . . please!'' The spirit of Mrs. Henny Youngman is alive on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater, where an 80-minute rimshot joke in the guise of a black comedy opened last night. Called ''The Smell of the Kill'' (the title is...

Mae West wasn't built in a day, you know. As is made quite clear in ''Dirty Blonde,'' Claudia Shear's rousing hymn to the Depression-era sex goddess, it took decades for West to perfect the look, the walk and the attitude that would define her...

January 26, 2001, Friday

NEWS Block Party Free performances, discussions and peeks at works in progress are promised by the Off Broadway theater that lays claim to two Broadway hits. It's New York Theater Workshop, where ''Rent'' and 'Dirty Blonde'' originated. On...

The Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens only seemed quiet, but Claudia Shear knew better. She waved her arm toward the hundreds of gravestones that surrounded her and said: ''Aren't we lucky? That's what everyone is telling us now.'' Luck is very...

May 8, 2000, Monday

She muscled her way into the neighborhood in the 1920's, when nobody thought she belonged there. Now here she is again, trying to squeeze in uptown with those ample hips of hers, looking for a spot among the witty Brits and singing animals and...